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Perhaps other Diplomatic Wing and ODA departments should have been consulted before this topic was even suggested as a candidate for the PEE. If it is too late to withdraw it I suggest that it should be totally recast in purely humanitarian terms. We could then quite happily publish it. If not, and the authors insist on retaining its present structure, I consider that we must insist that it is not published and the humanitarian angles are adequately reflected and given their proper priority.
15 September 1986
CC
Mr Court, SEAD
Mr Leeks
HKD
Mrs Walker, UKMis Geneva
Miss Barker-Harland, UKMis, New York
Mrs Wyeth, DRU, ODA
Mr Seller, EAD, ODA
Mr Wood, BE, Hanoi
Mr Whitehead, Research Dept
Mr Escritt, Finance Dept
N59ABY
T Trevan
United Nations Department